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What Causes Greenish Bowel Movement With Buttock Soreness?
my granddaughter is 10 weeks old, she has a greenish watery poo as well as a very sore,red, raw little bum and also around her little pipi, she is breast fed and sometimes she has formula in a bottle, we have tried bepanthon, sudacreme and also a cortizone ointment, nothing has helped,she has had it for 3 days, please can you help us?
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Hello. Welcome to HCM. As a Certified Breastfeeding Specialist i would suggest the mother to make the baby nurse more time in one breast and to not offer both breast at one feeding. The runny greenish stools are due to the large amount of fore milk that the baby is taking. Just make the baby feed longer on one breast in order to get also the hind milk that she needs and she will be better. For the rashes i would recommend wash the baby after each bowel movement and in addition apply some creams that have high concentrate of zinc because the rash is because of the moisture. Some option may be: Burt’s Bees Baby Bee Diaper Ointment, Triple Paste, Earth Mama Angel Bottom Balm, Babyganics Diaper Rash Cream, Boudreaux’s Butt Paste
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